Luca Nichetto designed the Notes room dividers for Offecct Lab, a branch of the brand that develops sustainable products and furniture for the workplace.

Nichetto took influence from washing hung above the narrow alleyways in his home town of Venice when designing the screens.

"When kids play football on the street, the clothes hanging over the lines muffle the sound of the bouncing football and screaming kids," he explained. "So I used that as inspiration and tried to transfer it in to an industrial product."

Each screen is constructed from two upholstered boards with rounded corners that sandwich a layer of recycled felt.

The felt helps to absorb noise from both sides of the division, but the pieces still allows a visual link between the spaces they separate at seated eye level.

"My brief from Offecct was to create a new kind of sound panel that didn't have to be fixed on the wall but more like a free standing object," said Nichetto. "At the same time it should work with recyclable felt made of waste from the upholstery production."

The panels mount on rails so they can be slid side-to-side to create different arrangements. The collection includes five shapes, which can be covered in a selection of fabrics.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2014/02/04/luca-nichettos-notes-screens-hang-from-the-ceiling/feed/1RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovskyhttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/04/24/rgb-fabulous-landscapes-wallpaper-screens-by-carnovsky/
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/04/24/rgb-fabulous-landscapes-wallpaper-screens-by-carnovsky/#commentsWed, 24 Apr 2013 10:00:31 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=311704Milan 2013: leafy forests and palatial interiors become visible under different coloured lights in the latest series of wallpapers and screens by Milan design studio Carnovsky (+ slideshow). Carnovsky's RGB Fabulous Landscapes installation at the Fondazione Adolfo Pini in Milan this month included a wallpaper that reveals various scenes depending on the colour of the LEDs shining on it. […]

]]>Milan 2013: leafy forests and palatial interiors become visible under different coloured lights in the latest series of wallpapers and screens by Milan design studio Carnovsky (+ slideshow).

Carnovsky's RGB Fabulous Landscapes installation at the Fondazione Adolfo Pini in Milan this month included a wallpaper that reveals various scenes depending on the colour of the LEDs shining on it.

The combination of red, blue or green light reveals the interior of a grand building, a dense forest or a marching crowd.

On the upper floor of the building, Carnovsky showed lacquered wooden screens and a handmade carpet decorated with animals and anatomical drawings, all limited editions produced by design brand Artep Italia.

In the courtyard outside, the designers installed the Atmospherics series of 20 screens depicting landscapes and meteorological phenomena, such as a sun bursting through the clouds.

Created in collaboration with Italian graphics and printing company Graphic Report, the scenes on each screen take on a different mood depending on the colour of the light.

Carnovsky was founded by designers Silvia Quintanilla and Francesco Rugi in 2007.

For Milan Design Week 2013, Carnovsky continues its RGB project experimenting with new designs, new materials and new technologies, continuing the journey begun in 2010 on the interaction between printed and light colours. The main theme is the landscape in its different meanings. Atmospheric landscapes, architectonic and perspective landscapes, emotional landscapes, ephemeral landscapes in continuous movement.

In the colonnaded courtyard the Atmospherics series is presented for the first time, a series of sky landscapes and meteorological phenomena. The whole series comprises more than 20 pieces. One giant sky titled Atmospheric N.1, printed with an innovative technique of digital fresco of the Italian company GraphicReport and illuminated by RGB LED lights, creates a magical show of sunrises, sunsets and storms.

Within the space on the ground floor, another large installation that uses the work titled Landscape N.1, in which the viewer is immersed in an enchanted forest, gradually turns in an architectural interior. The exterior reverses in the interior and the vanishing point of the columns and the perspective planes expands the space multiplying it to the infinite.

Finally, in the rooms on the upper floor of the Foundation, a dialogue between antique and contemporary has been created, placing some Carnovsky's limited editions produced by the Italian company Artep Italia like the screens in lacquered wood with antique engravings of animals and anatomy and the hand made carpets in a historical Milanese building.

Carnovsky has been working on some new limited editions which include a collection of screens (UV digital printing on lacquered wood), a collection of carpets hand-knotted in India and a collection of tapestries woven in Aubusson. Some of these objects including the three screens and a carpet were presented at the first floor of the Fondazione Pini as part of the RGB Fabulous Landscapes exhibition.

The use of construction materials complicates a dialogue between ancient Chinese motifs and contemporary furniture design processes.

CONtradition is design research inspired by the reaction generated in the exchange between design identities. Though inspired by traditional Chinese forms, the collection introduces construction materials to furniture design.

Led by the materials employed, the series instigates a dialogue between the roughness and strength of the materials and the elusive elegance of traditional Chinese design motifs. The apparent contradiction between the essentiality of contemporary design and the preciousness of antique style resolves to show that new and old can establish a deep and meaningful conversation.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/21/contradition-screens-by-micromacro-lab/feed/4Tint room dividers by Kristine Five Melværhttp://www.dezeen.com/2012/09/06/tint-room-dividers-by-kristine-five-melvaer/
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/09/06/tint-room-dividers-by-kristine-five-melvaer/#commentsThu, 06 Sep 2012 15:03:36 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=243056Norwegian designer Kristine Five Melvær has made a series of sheer silk room dividers in pale, graduated colours. The tops of the Tint screens are strung between pairs of poles, while the rounded bottom corners are left free to waft around. "The dividers are forming semi-transparent, living veils in space, moving with the wind or […]

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2012/09/06/tint-room-dividers-by-kristine-five-melvaer/feed/2StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavianhttp://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/18/stickingsticks-by-kawamura-ganjavian/
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/18/stickingsticks-by-kawamura-ganjavian/#commentsFri, 18 Mar 2011 11:30:07 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=120804Milan 2011: These screens made of sticks covered in Velcro by designers Kawamura-Ganjavian will be used to divide exhibition stands at Designjunction in Milan next month. Called StickingSticks, the product was designed in collaboration with hook-and-loop fastening company Velcro and is now being developed by British design brand Modus. Designjunction will take place 12-17 April as […]